PATERSON — A 25-year-old city man was wounded early Saturday morning in a shooting that happened near McBride Avenue in Paterson's 2nd Ward, authorities said.

Police learned of the shooting when the victim showed up at the emergency room at St. Joseph's Regional Medical Center at about 2:35 a.m., according to a press release issued by the Passaic County Prosecutor's Office. A subsequent investigation determined the man was shot on McBride Avenue, near Dixon Avenue, police said.